MPs Expense Claims – North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims. Among the claims by North-East MPs were:

Hilary Armstrong, MP for North West Durham:

* Claimed £3,100 towards the cost of re-pointing the gables and walls at her constituency home in Crook, County Durham; * £705 for a dishwasher for office staff in September 2005. This was reduced to £375 by officials.

Anne McIntosh (Vale of York)
* A £10 claim for mousetraps * A claim for £6.65 worth of Tetley Tea bags in March 2006

Dari Taylor (Stockton South)
* £229.13 and £151.58 for ‘gold crested’ House of Commons greetings cards; * £140 for cleaning, including dry cleaning, and £268 for a replacement dishwasher.

Vera Baird (Redcar)
* £2,009 for work to fit a new boiler, along with £1,031 for a new beech floor and £1,008 for new laminate flooring

Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland)
* £3,035.30 claimed for bathroom items between December 2005 and March 2006. Items included two soap dishes at £25 each and four linen baskets totaling £135; * £300 for portrait photographs in September 2007.

Phil Willis, Harrogate and Knaresborough (Lib Dem)
* March 08- claimed £1700 for decorating new flat * October 07- claimed £130 for bedding

John Cummings, Labour MP for Easington *£1,344 – Decoration – January 08 *£3,220 – Kitchen/gas renewals – May 06 *£2,036 – New gas fire – Feb 06

William Hague (Richmond, North Yorkshire) * £852.60 on national newspapers between January 2007 and February last year; * Monthly claims of about £60 for cleaning

Kevan Jones (North Durham) * £250 for curtains * £796.77 for carpets

Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham) * £1,095 for a sofa bed * £749 for a sofa

Frank Cook MP (Stockton North) * £5,374 + £745 – paid to “Out of Laos” for translation and networking services to pursue his interest in South East Asia * 99p for candles

Iain Wright MP (Hartlepool) * £1,200 for bedding and kitchen equipment
(UPDATE: Hartlepool’s Reaction To Politician’s Expenses Claims)

Alan Milburn (Darlington) * MDF Italia kitchen table and bench £1,009

John Greenway (Ryedale) * Under the additional costs allowance he claimed £500 on pot plants and bushes in total

Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) * Flat screen TV, an easy chair and a 16ft mast for a flat.

Care of The Northern Echo. MPs Expense Claims – North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims.

UPDATE 20th June 2009: Payback time as MPs count cost of expenses row – more from the Northern Echo:

“Eight North-East MPs are among nearly 200 across the country who have collectively returned £478,616 since the crisis began in May.

TONY BLAIR, the former Prime Minister and MP for Sedgefield, tried to claim almost £7,000 on expenses to repair his constituency home two days before leaving office, it has emerged. “

Thanks again to the Noerthern Echo for the original source of North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims.

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